An English translation of the Chinese "Zhuangzi". It favors an attitude toward life: abandon presuppositions, intellectual debates, and ambitions.

With the writings attributed to Laozi, the "Zhuangzi" contributed to an alternative philosophical ideal that matched Confucianism in its impact on Chinese culture. Over the centuries this classical Daoism influenced many aspects of Chinese life, including painting, literature, and the martial arts. It had a particularly strong effect on Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen). For this book, Donald Munro has written an afterword that places Daoism and the "Zhuangzi" in historical and cultural context.

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Acknowledgments
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The Little Sparrow's Small Happiness
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Hui Shi's Giant Gourd
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The Song Family's Secret Formula
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The Useless Shu Tree
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The Tattooed Yue People
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The Music of the Earth
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Zhao Wen Quits the Zither
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Does Wang Ni Know?
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Is Xi Shi Really Beautiful?
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Li Ji's Tears
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Zhang Wuzi's Dream
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Shadows Talking
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The Dream of the Butterfly
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Three at Dawn and Four at Dusk
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Hui Shi Leans against a Tree
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The Cook Carves Up a Cow
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Passing on the Flame
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The Caged Pheasant
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Like A Mantis Stopping a Cart
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The Horse Lover
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The Earth Spirit's Tree
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A Tree's Natural Life Span
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The Freak
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Oil Burns Itself Out
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The Tiger Trainer
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Toeless Shu
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Nature the Superhero
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Forgetting the Dao
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Zi Sang Questions His Fate
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Digging a Canal in the Ocean Floor
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Are a Duck's Legs Too Short?
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The Lost Goat
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Bandits Have Principles, Too
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Good Wine, Bad Wine
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The Yellow Emperor Questions Guangcheng
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Nature's Friend
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The Old Wheelwright
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The Earth and the Sky
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Crows and Seagulls
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Confucius Sees a Dragon
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Don't Ring the Bull's Nose
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The Wind and the Snake
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Courage of the Sage
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The Frog in the Well
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Learning How to Walk in Handan
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A Crow Eating a Dead Rat
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You're Not a Fish
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Zhuangzi Dreams of a Skeleton
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Sea Birds Don't Like Music
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The Drunk Passenger
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Riding with the Dao
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The Sweet Water is Gone First
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Lin Hui Forsakes a Fortune
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Swallows Nest in the Eaves
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The Mantis Getting the Cicada
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Fan Was Never Destroyed
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Knowledge and the Dao
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Gengsang Forsakes Fame
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The Yellow Emperor and the Pasture Boy
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The Stone Mason and the Ying Man
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Two Nations on a Snail's Antennae
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Zhuangzi Borrows Grain
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The Turtle That Could Predict the Future
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Natural Use
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Catch the Fish, Discard the Trap
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Yang Zhu Studies the Dao
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Zi Gong's Snow-White Clothes
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The Bandit Speaks
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Zhuangzi's Three Swords
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Confucius in the Black Forest
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The Man Who Hated His Footprints
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The Man Who Hated His Shadow
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Like a Drifting Boat
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The Dragonslayer
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Shattering the Dragonpearl
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Don't Make Sacrifices
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Zhuangzi on His Deathbed
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Afterword